January 16, 2011

Golden Globes Liveblog!

January 15, 2011

My 2011 Golden Globes Picks

For each category, I'll give you the nominees, which ones I've seen, my pick from among the nominees, and my ideal pick if I could nominate anything I wanted. For the TV series categories, I've picked a few things, basically to save you from the monotony of me just saying The Vampire Diaries and Community should win everything. (Also, not italicizing titles because it messes up my copy/paste and would make this take forever. Sorry.)

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Nominees: Black Swan; The Fighter; Inception; The King's Speech; The Social Network
I've seen: All of them! Wow, I'm all over this category.
My pick: The King's Speech, although The Social Network is a close second and The Fighter was great too.
My ideal pick: The King's Speech

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Nominees: Jesse Eisenberg: The Social Network; Colin Firth: The King's Speech; James Franco: 127 Hours; Ryan Gosling: Blue Valentine; Mark Wahlberg: The Fighter
I've seen: The Social Network, The King's Speech, The Fighter
My pick: They were all great, but I must go with Colin Firth
My ideal pick: Colin Firth

Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Nominees: Alice in Wonderland; Burlesque; The Kids Are All Right; Red; The Tourist
I've seen: The Kids Are All Right, the first half hour of Alice in Wonderland (I couldn't make myself watch the whole thing.)
My pick: The Kids Are All Right
My ideal pick: Easy A (Seriously, what was WITH this category? How could all those other things be nominated and not Easy A?)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Nominees: Annette Bening: The Kids Are All Right; Anne Hathaway: Love And Other Drugs; Angelina Jolie: The Tourist; Julianne Moore: The Kids Are All Right; Emma Stone: Easy A
I've seen: The Kids Are All Right, Easy A
My pick: The women from Kids were both good, but I'm going with Emma Stone.
My ideal pick: Emma Stone

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Nominees: Johnny Depp: Alice in Wonderland; Johnny Depp: The Tourist; Paul Giamatti: Barney's Version; Jake Gyllenhaal: Love And Other Drugs; Kevin Spacey: Casino Jack
I've seen: The aforementioned first half hour of Alice in Wonderland.
My pick: NOT Johnny Depp, as he's a lot of why I turned the movie off. I suppose I'll go with Paul Giamatti just on principle.
My ideal pick: Um. Was there a male lead in Easy A or Kids Are All Right? Were there any other comedies I liked? We'll pretend Penn Badgley was a lead in Easy A and go with him, I guess.

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees: Amy Adams: The Fighter; Helena Bonham Carter: The King's Speech; Mila Kunis: Black Swan; Melissa Leo: The Fighter; Jacki Weaver: Animal Kingdom
I've seen: All except Animal Kingdom
My pick: On the one hand, I want to reward Helena Bonham Carter for accepting a non-crazy role for once (and doing a great job of it.) On the other hand, Amy Adams was amazing.
My ideal pick: I suppose my heart is with Amy Adams.

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees: Christian Bale: The Fighter; Michael Douglas: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Andrew Garfield: The Social Network; Jeremy Renner: The Town; Geoffrey Rush: The King's Speech
I've seen: The Fighter, The Social Network, The King's Speech
My pick: Those three were all great. I guess Andrew Garfield.
My ideal pick: I think Matt Damon for True Grit. Or, actually, Rupert Grint was particularly good in the most recent Harry Potter movie.

Best Animated Feature Film
Nominees: Despicable Me; How To Train Your Dragon; The Illusionist; Tangled; Toy Story 3
I've seen: Tangled
My pick: Yeah, it's the only one I saw, but I really did love Tangled.
My ideal pick: Tangled

Best Foreign Language Film
Nominees: Biutiful; The Concert; The Edge; I Am Love; In A Better World
I've seen: I Am Love
My pick: Again, only one I've seen, but I Am Love was great.
My ideal pick: I Am Love

Best Director - Motion Picture
Nominees: Darren Aronofsky: Black Swan; David Fincher: The Social Network; Tom Hooper: The King's Speech; Christopher Nolan: Inception; David O. Russell: The Fighter
I've seen: Hey, all of them! Oh, they're the same as the best drama nominees.
My pick: Even though I liked some of the other movies better, I bet Inception was the hardest to direct, so I'll go with Nolan.
My ideal pick: Sure, I'll stay with that.

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Nominees: Alexandre Desplat: The King's Speech; Danny Elfman: Alice in Wonderland; A. R. Rahman: 127 Hours; Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: The Social Network; Hans Zimmer: Inception
I've seen: The King's Speech, The Social Network, Inception, part of Alice
My pick: I think the music from The Social Network was actually the most memorable of these. Huh.
My ideal pick: I actually thought the way Clint Mansell integrated Swan Lake themes into his Black Swan score was really well done and added a lot to the movie.

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Nominees: "Bound To You" - Burlesque; "Coming Home" - Country Strong; "I See The Light" - Tangled; "There's A Place For Us" - Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader; "You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me" - Burlesque
I've seen: Tangled
My pick: Yeah, let's go with the Tangled song. I adore Alan Mencken.
My ideal pick: Tangled

Best Television Series - Drama
Nominees: Boardwalk Empire; Dexter; The Good Wife; Mad Men; The Walking Dead
I've seen: The Good Wife, some Mad Men but not this season, a few minutes of The Walking Dead
My pick: The Good Wife
My ideal pick: The Vampire Diaries or Rubicon

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Nominees: Julianna Margulies: The Good Wife; Elisabeth Moss: Mad Men; Piper Perabo: Covert Affairs; Katey Sagal: Sons Of Anarchy; Kyra Sedgwick: The Closer
I've seen: The Good Wife, some Covert Affairs, some Mad Men but not this season
My pick: Julianna Margulies
My ideal pick: Nina Dobrev for Vampire Diaries (She plays TWO characters!) or Leighton Meester for Gossip Girl. Or maybe Mary McCormack for In Plain Sight.

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Nominees: Steve Buscemi: Boardwalk Empire; Bryan Cranston: Breaking Bad; Michael C. Hall: Dexter; Jon Hamm: Mad Men; Hugh Laurie: House
I've seen: Some Man Men and some House, neither this season
My pick: Jon Hamm
My ideal pick: I was going to say Ian Somerhalder for Vampire Diaries, but he usually enters himself as supporting, I think. So then James Badge Dale for Rubicon or Peter Krause for Parenthood or Ed Westwick for Gossip Girl.

Best Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Nominees: 30 Rock; The Big Bang Theory; The Big C; Glee; Modern Family; Nurse Jackie (Wait, that's six. Weird.)
I've seen: Glee, some 30 Rock but not this season
My pick: Uh, I guess Glee, but I'd rather not.
My ideal pick: Community. And even How I Met Your Mother is better than Glee at this point.

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Nominees: Toni Collette: United States Of Tara; Edie Falco: Nurse Jackie; Tina Fey: 30 Rock; Laura Linney: The Big C; Lea Michele: Glee
I've seen: Glee, some 30 Rock but not this season
My pick: Lea Michele, wholeheartedly. Even though I have problems with the show, I think she does a great job with what she's given.
My ideal pick: Gillian Jacobs for Community or Alyson Hannigan for HIMYM. But really, I'm fine with Michele.

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Nominees: Alec Baldwin: 30 Rock; Steve Carell: The Office; Thomas Jane: Hung; Matthew Morrison: Glee; Jim Parsons: The Big Bang Theory
I've seen: Glee; a few episodes of 30 Rock and The Office but not this season
My pick: Matthew Morrison. Yes, I actually like him. I know that's rare.
My ideal pick: Joel McHale for Community or Bradley Whitford or Colin Hanks for The Good Guys

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees: Carlos; The Pacific; Pillars Of The Earth; Temple Grandin; You Don't Know Jack
I've seen: Some of Pillars of the Earth
My pick: Pillars of the Earth is awesome.
My ideal pick: Probably that. Except didn't Downton Abbey come out in 2010, at least in England? Hmmm.

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees: Hayley Atwell: Pillars Of The Earth; Claire Danes: Temple Grandin; Judi Dench: Return To Cranford; Romola Garai: Emma; Jennifer Love Hewitt: The Client List
I've seen: Some of Pillars of the Earth. I borrowed the Cranford DVDs from my parents but haven't watched them yet, if that counts.
My pick: Atwell is good, but Judi Dench is Judi Dench, so.
My ideal pick: I really like Alison Pill as Maud in Pillars of the Earth, but I haven't seen enough to be sure whether she's lead or supporting yet.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees: Idris Elba; Luther; Ian McShane: Pillars Of The Earth; Al Pacino: You Don't Know Jack; Dennis Quaid: The Special Relationship; Edgar Ramirez: Carlos
I've seen: Some of Pillars of the Earth
My pick: McShane. He's great.
My ideal pick: As great as McShane is, both Matthew MacFadyen and Rufus Sewell might be better in Pillars.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees: Hope Davis: The Special Relationship; Jane Lynch: Glee; Kelly MacDonald: Boardwalk Empire; Julia Stiles: Dexter; Sofia Vergara: Modern Family
I've seen: Glee
My pick: I guess Jane Lynch, although I like her character way less than most people do.
My ideal pick: Okay, these supporting categories are ridiculously broad. We'll say Candice Accola for The Vampire Diaries or Heather Morris for Glee or Alison Brie for Community

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees: Scott Caan: Hawaii Five-O; Chris Colfer: Glee; Chris Noth: The Good Wife; Eric Stonestreet: Modern Family; David Strathairn: Temple Grandin
I've seen: Glee, The Good Wife, some of Hawaii Five-O
My pick: His nomination seems kind of random, but I'm going to go with Scott Caan. He's by far the best thing about his show. (Chris Noth is fine, but there are at least three other supporting guys on The Good Wife who are better, so his constant nominations confuse me.)
My ideal picks: Ian Somerhalder for The Vampire Diaries or Neil Patrick Harris for HIMYM or Josh Charles or Matt Czuchry for The Good Wife

The Golden Globes are tomorrow!

Yay! We get an awards show tomorrow night! And it's a fun one - the Golden Globes, which cover both movies and TV, and which tend to be kind of wacky. Hm, I thought I'd liveblogged last year, but maybe I'm thinking of the SAG Awards.

But this year! I will be liveblogging with the lovely Melissa over at TheTelevixen (the site where I recap a few shows). We'll get started at 7pm Eastern, to cover the red carpet coverage, and then the ceremony itself starts an hour later.

Now, I would not EVER suggest that you should read a different liveblog instead of ours, but if you like to multitask, check out New York's Vulture blog, where the incomparable Fug Girls will be liveblogging the red carpet, and then the Daily Beast, where Choire Sicha and Kate Aurthur will be all over the ceremony. (I'll probably be reading both of these liveblogs the next morning.)

And what do I want to win the actual awards, you ask? I'm working on that. I'm trying to marathon a bunch of movies today, and then I'll get a post of my picks up for you tonight. If I manage to see another movie or two before the ceremony tomorrow, I'll update it. (Thank God for Netflix.) I have, at least, seen the six movies that have been nominated for four or more awards each, so that's decent, I think. Oddly, given all the TV I watch, I don't watch much that gets nominated for things like this. Ah well.